Displacement of conjugate points during a substorm in a global magnetohydrodynamic simulation

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Saita, S ^a,b   Kadokura, A ^c   Sato, N ^c   Fujita, S ^d   Tanaka, T ^e   Ebihara, Y ^f   Ohtani, S ^g   Ueno, G ^b   Murata, K ^h   Matsuoka, D ⁱ   Kitamoto, A ^j   Higuchi, T ^b  

^a Transdisciplinary Research Integration Center   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^d JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^e KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

ⁱ JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^j NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

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EID: 79959699303     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JA016155     Document Type: Article

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